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Paul Wainwright is a partner and the head of our costs practice group. He is responsible for delivering all costs solutions and leads a team of 40 specialists.
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Paul Wainwright is a partner and the head of our costs practice group. He is responsible for delivering all costs solutions and leads a team of 40 specialists.
Paul has over 15 years of experience handling complex multi-party claims, group litigation and professional negligence cases, often involving Solicitors and Barristers. Paul has a particular expertise in Freezing Injunctions and associated regulatory issues and Paul and his team are often instructed to undertake audits of legal spend in high profile and complex matters.
Paul acts individually or part of a team as Monitoring Counsel to assist in managing highly complex risks for a wide range of defence organisations to include both (re)insurers and primary carriers. As part of this work, Paul advises on a wide range of coverage issues and regularly assists in drafting settlement schemes, settlement advocacy (when required) and managing insurer’s exposure in these complex risks.
Paul was a lead Partner on the BSCOWL GLO and has represented the defendant's at the CCMC ‘Financial incontinence’: judge slashes group action costs | News | Law Gazette and continues to act in the substantial detailed assessment.
Throughout his career, Paul has represented both paying and receiving parties in technical costs and procedural arguments and has also represented clients in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
Paul and his team are ranked in Chambers and Paul is ranked as a Leading Individual: https://chambers.com/department/clyde-co-llp-costs-lawyers-litigation-support-58:2833:11805:1:85
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Paul and his team work collaboratively and proactively with Zurich in order to address the various costs issues and challenges that arise at all levels and case values, both on an individual claim basis and strategically. The team’s knowledge, passion and delivery on costs matters is second to none. The team has also assisted Zurich in developing and enhancing its internal costs capability and in the creation of key initiatives designed to contain ultimate expenditure on costs, offering substantial value-add to the services provided by Clyde & Co.
Head of Complex Claims and Strategic Litigation, Zurich Insurance.